Friday, June 09, 2006

Leonardo Lost

All week, I have repeated the same things over and over, each time someone has asked me how I am holding up since having learned that we've lost Leonardo. I've said, "This has been a hard week. It's tough. It's not easy. It's almost impossible to even say anything at all."

He took his own life, and he did this just this week. I know I'll have to come to accept on some level it was his choice to do so. But, nobody ought to expect that I or anyone who loved him will reach such heights of understanding and compassion anytime soon.

The suddenness of this is still one of my most preoccupying thoughts. I can barely believe it and thoroughly want someone to put a stop to this, as if this were some sort of cruel joke. But, it's not going to stop. He is gone, and so many lives are forever changed.

And so I keep asking myself, what does this mean? What does it mean that he has had his last dance? And of course, why, why, why?

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I believe in the possibility of a more humane world and lasting global peace—the end of armed conflict between Earth's many nations and tribes. Such a world can be realized through shared intentionality and a commonly-held reverence for one another's inherent dignity as human beings.

There are many obstacles we must overcome together in order to achieve peace. Universal adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is still necessary—hello USA?—along with abolition of the death penalty, a total de-privatization of prisons, sustainable energy reform, increased environmental protections, more rigorous separation of church and state, and free universal health-care—not just so-called health-insurance reform.